It’s happening again, macabre deja vu.
I have an hour for a bike ride, the amount of time I give myself to break away from the chain attached to my ankle by the landline phone since the death of my father in late April and the medical care needed for my mother. Up to Conway Public Library I pedal for a novel in an attempt to escape the phantasmagorical madness that cloaks my world of late.
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